Means for cutting sheets



Oct. 17, 1933. STRENE 1,931,362

MEANS FOR CUTTING SHEETS Filed Aug. 51, 1931 INVENTOR,

54,, ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 17, 1933 v a I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,931,362 V MEANS FOR CUTTING SHEETS Frank H. Streine, New Bremen, Ohio, assignor to The Streine Tool and Manufacturing Company, New Bremen, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application August 31, 1931. Serial No. 560,353

1 Claim. (Cl. 164-66) This invention relates to new and useful iman, adjusted position thereon by set screws 7. provements in means for cutting sheets. (See Figures 1 and 2.) The purpose of these The prevailing method of setting slitter cuttwo guides is to keep these two shafts from ters is to have an upper cutter and a lower springing during a cut. cutter. Since these cutters come into very close The cutter head '3, which is an oblong mem 00 contact on the edge, it is necessary that very ber, has curved ends formed with two radial great precaution be taken so that the cutters grooves 8 and 9, 180 apart. At one side of will not set close enough to scar each other and each groove the cutter head is offset to provide at the same time close enough to prevent the a shoulder 10; Ascrew hole projects from each 10 formation of a feather edge or burr, which is shoulder through its respective end of the .cut- 5 not acceptable to the trade. ter head to the radial groove therein,"to receive It is the principal object of my invention to a set screw 11 to adjustably hold a cutter insert avoid the foregoing difficulties by providing 12 in the groove. means of cutting sheets by means of a cutter In Figure 3 the dotted line designates a piece roll and an anvil roll. Both or either of these of scrap being out between the anvil roller 4 70 rolls will be driven, or the anvil roll can run and the cutter head 3,by the insert blades 12,

idle while the cutter roll alone is driven. The 12 mounted 180 apart on said head. In this anvil roll can extend the full length of the cutconstruction employing the anvil roller, there ter arbor and both the cutters can be quickly is no danger of the cutters being scarred, the set to any position, thus saving a great deal of formation of feather edges and burrs is pre- 75 time in the cutter set up. vented, and other difliculties with the prevailing Other important and incidental objects will method of setting slitting cutters removed. The

be brought out in the following specification guides 5 and 6, which are a pair of bridlecastand particularly set forth in the subjoined ings, prevent the shafts 1 and 2 from springing claims. apart when cutting the material. In this way In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a the cutters can be set up very close tothe anvil top elevational view of the scrap cutter, showroll and still have suflicient clearance not to ing the guides between which the cutting head mar it, when cutting any material passed and roller are located. Figure 2 is a front elebetween them. vational view thereof. And Figure 3 is a cross Having described my invention, I claim: sectional view taken through the same. In a device of the type described for cutting In Figures 1 and 3 of the accompanying drawsheets, a pair of axially alined shafts, an anvil ing, the numeral 1 designates a driven shaft roller on one shaft and a cutter on the other and 2 an id e Shaft- Keyed 0 the driven Shaft shaft, a pair of guides movable along said shafts,

3 l s a Cutting ad 3, while a hardened tool and means for holding said guides in an ad- 90 steel 0 6 4 s a owed to rotate freely on the justed position with the anvil roller and cutter idler shaft 2. between them to keep the shafts from springing The cutting head 3 and roller 4 are located during a, cut. between two guides 5 and 6 which are free to FRANK H. STREINE. 40 be moved on the shafts 1 and 2, being held in 95 i i i I T 100 a v p v I 105 l I no 

